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May 12, 2019 | Last Modified: 2019

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This wonderful coffee shop started as one village’s effort to grow and sell their own coffee at fair prices has become a small but growing number of coffee shops in Thailand. Akha Ama is grown by smallholders around the village of Maejantai at 1500 metres above sea level in the highland region of Northern Thailand. The coffee grown is an Arabica that picking immediate wet processing is all done by hand, allowing careful grading and quality monitoring of all processes.

Responsibility

Akha Ama Coffee is a socially Empowered Enterprise and was established in March 2010 with the motivation of supporting the local community by focusing on coffee production from cultivation to brewing.

Business Case

Akha Ama Coffee provides a direct trade to give fair benefit to communities as well as encourage and support villagers to apply good methods for a better quality of intercrops production. Akha Ama coffee focuses on the value of coffee which are organic and authentic coffee to make a product for helping people in the community to generate income and especially this enterprise also create the opportunity for the local people at the same time.

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This wonderful coffee shop started as one village’s effort to grow and sell their own coffee at fair prices has become a small but growing number of coffee shops in Thailand. Akha Ama is grown by smallholders around the village of Maejantai at 1500 metres above sea level in the highland region of Northern Thailand. The coffee grown is an Arabica that picking immediate wet processing is all done by hand, allowing careful grading and quality monitoring of all processes.

Akha Ama Coffee is a socially Empowered Enterprise and was established in March 2010 with the motivation of supporting the local community by focusing on coffee production from cultivation to brewing.

Akha Ama Coffee provides a direct trade to give fair benefit to communities as well as encourage and support villagers to apply good methods for a better quality of intercrops production. Akha Ama coffee focuses on the value of coffee which are organic and authentic coffee to make a product for helping people in the community to generate income and especially this enterprise also create the opportunity for the local people at the same time.

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